Nigel is a highly qualified and experienced banker with an in-depth understanding of all aspects of banking obtained during a career lasting over 40 years, with excellent contacts throughout the City of London. He is currently working on a part-time basis as a consultant at a trade association in the City involved in responding to the government's proposals for the new Payments Regulator. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Head of Operations at an overseas bank with responsibility for information...

Quantification of lost income resulting from a variety of incidents including: • Personal injury - road traffic accidents, accidents at work, any other accident/injury (UK & overseas) • Fatal accident (loss of dependency calculations) • Industrial diseases (including lost years calculations) • Medical negligence Evaluation of income derived from: • Employed earnings (salary, bonus, benefits in kind, share options & pension benefits) • Self-employed earnings (profits from sole trader businesses & partnerships) •...

Professional negligence • Tax investigations • PAYE and VAT fraud • Income tax and capital gains tax planning • Corporate tax planning • Business structures (partnerships, limited companies and LLPs) • Shareholder and partnership disputes • Business, company and share valuations • Matrimonial disputes • Commercial disputes • Business interruption and loss of profits claims • Personal injury, loss of earnings and fatal accident claims • Directors' conduct and disqualification • Companies Act issues • Criminal matters • Confiscation orders

Dmytro Tupchiienko is a forensic accountant (CPFA) and auditor (CQI/IRCA) focusing on risk and compliance issues and regulatory work. He has over 25 years’ experience having worked as a locum tenens for legal and professional services firms, including 'Magic Circle' and 'Big 4'. He is a Certified Expert Witness for civil cases and criminal cases in England and Wales' courts (holder of Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate) and in the courts of Scotland (holder of the University of Aberdeen...

Private banking • Investment management • Asset allocation • Wealth management • Loans, mortgages, overdrafts • Regulation • On-shore off-shore issues • Insider dealing • Criminal: confiscation of assets, regulatory rule breaches, money laundering • Banking: property lending (commercial & residential) • Tax • Building & construction • Retail banking • Interest rate swaps • Libor-related claims

Forensic accounting • Money laundering • Proceeds of crime & confiscation • Fraud • Asset tracing • Fraudulent trading & director's disqualification • Personal injury • Fatal accident claims • Loss of earnings • Loss of profits • Loss of future earnings • Matrimonial • Assistance with Form E • Professional negligence • Dispute resolution • Director & shareholder disputes • Business & share valuations • Expert determinations • Business interruption • Consequential loss • Business acquisitions & disposals • Criminal investigations • Covid fraud • Furlough...

Information technology • Technology • Telecommunications • Digital forensics • eDiscovery • IT fitness for purpose • IT outsourcing & project disputes • Project delay analysis • Patents & intellectual property rights • Software copyright • Computer forensics • Mobile forensics • Data recovery • Data security • Incident response • Data expert • Digital communications Jason Coyne is an expert information technology (IT) and digital forensics consultant with over 30 years' experience spanning local and central government, telecommunications,...

Sam is a highly experience and pragmatic expert with over 36 years' experience. He is regularly instructed as an expert forensic accountancy witness by legal teams in both civil and ciminal matters. He is well versed in CPR and CrPR and is a former Deputy Chairman of the Academy of Experts. He specialises in: • COP 8 and COP 9 tax investigations & enquiries ( Civil & Criminal ) • Fraud vulnerability & investigation reports ( UK & overseas ) • POCA (Proceeds of Crime)/money laundering reports • Insurance claims &...

Employment • Research & analysis of a claimant's pre- & post-accident employment & earnings prospects • Instructions undertaken as a joint or single party expert • Rehabilitation • HJS's Pathway to Work Programme is a vocational rehabilitation programme which encourages & assists a return to training & work

I have been preparing expert employment and earnings reports since 2016 for personal injury, medical negligence and family law cases. I provide reports for the court, commenting on a claimant’s capacity for work and their career and earnings trajectory both for the index event and now. Claimants come from a variety of backgrounds (military personnel, NHS staff, Civil Service employees, teachers, high-income professionals, the self-employed, children/adolescents, students, deceased individuals and many more).

Experienced in forensic investigation, examination & the presentation of written & oral evidence regarding: Telecommunications • Cell Site Analysis • Radio measurements & surveys • GPRS • 2G (GSM), 3G (UMTS), 4G (LTE), 5G • Call pattern/attribution analysis (i2) • Fixed & mobile telephone call records analysis • Mobile handset & SIM card examination & data extraction • SIM card cloning • HEX dumping • Fraudulent use • Malicious calls • Billing issues • Surveillance • Interception • Inspections & performance analysis • Fax & data •...

Key expertise and experience in: • Loss of earnings • Employment matters • Return to work after injury and related wage loss estimates • Particular expertise in return to work after acquired disability and brain injury • Vocational rehabilitation • Functional capacity assessment Can also provide: • Occupational and aptitude assessment • Vocational case management • Wage loss • Counselling

Through my qualifications and experience, I am competent to provide advice, report writing and consultation on most financial service products. As a company, we currently specialise in providing expert reports for claims on motor finance, pensions and Plevin, but due to our team of experts, we can provide reports on other areas of the finance services industry as and when required.

International wholesale & retail banking systems & operations • Banking & securities payment & clearing systems • Foreign exchange, money markets, commercial lending, bonds, equities & financial derivatives systems & operations • Computer systems design, selection, implementation & project management & related methodologies • Practice of management consultancy • Internet & e-commerce • Insurance systems • Computer evidence • Artificial intelligence • Machine learning • IT intellectual property

FCA regulated markets, specifically: • Consumer credit, including motor finance and leasing, payday lending, rent to own, as lenders, brokers or as appointed representatives • Mortgage lending, including first and second charge, and equity release/later life lending • For the above, matters relating to the conduct of firms, adherence to FCA regulatory rules, suitability of advice or products sold (mis-selling), assessment of any customer detriment and how matters should have been concluded

Employment • Loss of earnings • Vocational rehabilitation • Matrimonial • Victims of abuse • Labour market assessment • Work undertaken as joint expert or for claimant or defendant Trevor Gilbert & Associates Ltd is a leading expert witness practice established in 1991 with experts nationwide. Case management centre DX:87955 Ipswich Experts include: Margaret Dale Phil Perlin Natalie Styles Ian Palmer Mark Quinn Deborah Armstrong

Career structure assessment • Earning assessment • Employment practice • Job market analysis • Rehabilitation assessments • The provision of career profiles to be used in cases of personal injury by claimant and defendants • Analysis of earnings by different occupational areas and by geographical region, including the evaluation of career options and level of earnings in Europe, America, South America, Australia and South Africa • Individual careers counselling both for those who have suffered physical and psychological...

Compliance with UK financial services rules & regulations • Financial planning matters, including pensions, investments, savings, life assurance & the advisory process & standards

Expert Services The specialists within Best Practice Group have extensive experience in providing Expert Witness Services as part of litigation or dispute resolution. We work with firms of solicitors and barristers along with their clients and lay-clients to provide wholly objective and independent Expert Witness Services. Our technical people assess technical evidence to determine levels of liability and delineation of roles and responsibilities in major programmes and projects. Our forensic accounting specialists...

Mis-sold pensions • Mis-sold finance contracts • Mis-sold mortgages